Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

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About The Author

Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor is a professor of history at Smith College where she teaches courses on race, slavery, and her father, comedic legend Richard Pryor. She is the award-winning author of the article “The Etymology of [N-Word]: Resistance, Language, and the Politics of Freedom in the Antebellum North” and the 2016 book Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War. Her viral TED talk on why it’s hard to talk about the n-word has been viewed more than two million times.

Appearances

JUN 10
7:00PM
In Person

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Odyssey Bookshop
9 College St
South Hadley, MA 01075
JUL 28
6:45PM
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Harvard Bookstore
1256 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02138

Books by Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

Something We Said

Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me

By Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
Part memoir by the daughter of the iconic comedian Richard Pryor, part exploration of the historical and contemporary use of the N-word, this hybrid book peels back the curtain on the life of Pryor and interrogates the most perplexing word in the American lexicon, a word he helped popularize.<...
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